Wellness Dentistry: Oral Health for Longevity with Dr. Katie To
Welcome to Wellness Dentistry: Oral Health for Longevity with Dr Katie, where wellness dentistry explores oral health, preventive care, and functional medicine for listeners dedicated to whole-body wellness & the best oral health outcomes possible.Β Iβm Dr. Katie To, President of the IABDM (International Academy of Biological Dentistry & Medicine), founder of the Wellness Dentist Institute, and the visionary behind the Center for Wellness Dentistry. Each episode brings you expert insights on how your mouth and body work together, highlighting the essential role of oral health in total well-being.Β Find out more here: https://www.thewellnessdentist.com/In this podcast you'll disc...
The Dental-Nutrition Connection: Vitamin C, Magnesium & Longevity with Dr. Thomas Levy
Most of us were taught that healing happens at the chair. Get the procedure, go home, recover. But if you've ever had a patient who did everything right and still didn't heal the way you expected, you already know there's more to the story. This conversation with Dr. Thomas Levy changed the way I think about what's actually happening beneath the surface, and why our patients need more than dentistry to truly get well.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
Why liposomal vitamin C can match or even outperform IV vitamin C in clinical...17. Purpose-Driven Dentistry: Leaving a 7-Figure Practice to Practice Whole-Body Dentistry with Dr. Anthony Vu
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There is a moment, if you are honest with yourself, when you realize that success on paper and fulfillment in your body are two completely different things. Dr. Anthony Vu knows that moment well. He built a thriving seven-figure dental practice, had every marker of achievement, and still found himself sitting in a nice restaurant feeling hollow. This episode is about what it takes to actually do something about that, and why the mouth, the body, and the way we lead are all connected to the same root.
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16. How Hidden Dental Mold Nearly Destroyed My Health with Amy Wine
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Most people don't connect a failing dental bridge to memory loss, mast cell activation, or a potassium level so low their heart nearly stopped. But that's exactly what happened to Amy Wine a patient of Dr. Katie.
In this episode of Wellness Dentistry: Oral Health for Longevity, Dr. Katie sits down with Amy Wine, licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed professional counselor, and business coach, for a raw, honest conversation about what really happens when your dental health is silently driving systemic illness throughout your whole body.
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15. How AI and Wellness Dentistry Are Changing the Way We Care for Your Whole Body
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Ready to experience dentistry that sees the whole you, not just your teeth? Explore holistic dental care, learn about the oral-body connection, and take your first step toward whole-body wellness.
What if your dentist wasn't just looking at your teeth, but at your entire life?
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Brandon Prior, a startup practice owner, father, and wellness-minded dentist who built his practice from the ground up, right in the middle of a pandemic, because he knew the tradi...
14. What Your Dentist Isn't Telling You: Oral Health & Whole-Body Wellness with Dr. Blodgett
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What if your dental appointment felt less like a procedure and more like a reset?
In this episode of Wellness Dentistry: Oral Health for Longevity, Dr. Katie To sits down with Dr. Kelly J. Blodgett, a biological and holistic dentist based in Oregon whose approach to patient care is quietly changing what people believe is possible inside a dental practice. His patients fly in from across the country and around the world, and after hearing this conversation, it's easy to understand why.
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13. The Hidden Link Between Oral Health and Chronic Illness, with Dr. Daniel Pompa
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What if the root of your chronic symptoms has been hiding in your mouth all along?
In this episode of Wellness Dentistry: Oral Health for Longevity, Dr. Katie To sits down with Dr. Daniel Pompa, one of the world's leading voices in functional medicine and cellular detoxification. His story isn't just impressive. It's personal. After years of unexplained fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, and gut issues, Dr. Pompa traced the source of his suffering back to improperly removed mercury amalgam fillings. What followed was a decades-long journey from debilitating illness to pioneering one...
12. Oral Health for Longevity: Your Dentist, Your Water, & Your Breath with Happy Life Labs CEO, Brett Harmeling
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What if the most overlooked piece of your wellness journey is sitting right in your mouth?
In this episode of Wellness Dentistry: Oral Health for Longevity, Dr. Katie To sits down with Brett Harmeling, founder and CEO of Happy Life Labs, for a conversation that's equal parts honest, eye-opening, and deeply personal. Brett isn't just a wellness expert. He's also Dr. Katie's patient, and his story is one of those that reminds you why getting to the root cause actually matters.
After a serious tra...
11. Dr. Dome: The Oral-Systemic Connection. How Wellness Dentistry Supports Your Overall Health
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What if the reason you've tried everything, the supplements, the gut protocols, the functional medicine appointments, and still don't feel like yourself, is actually sitting in your mouth?
That's exactly what Dr. Katie To explores in this episode with one of the most sought-after voices in biological and wellness dentistry, Dr. Dominik Nischwitz, known globally as Dr. Dome. A biological dentist, naturopathic doctor, functional medicine practitioner, and author of It's All in Your Mouth, Dr. Dome has spent over 20 years building the framework for what he calls Biodentistry 3.0...
10. An MD's View: How Your Mouth Affects Your Brain, Body, and Mental Health
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What if the key to your brain health, your energy, your chronic pain, and even your mental clarity, was hiding in your mouth?
Dr. Katie To sits down with Dr. Chang Ruan, MD, internal medicine physician, integrative medicine specialist, and founder of Texas Center for Lifestyle Medicine, for a conversation that genuinely stopped her in her tracks. Dr. Ruan grew up watching both worlds, his mother practicing Eastern medicine and acupuncture, his father a research-driven MD, and he never saw them as separate. That foundation shaped...
9. Cavitation Surgery, Gut Health & Whole-Body Healing: A Real Patient Story with Dr. Katie To
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What if the missing piece of your health puzzle wasn't in your gut, your hormones, or your bloodwork, but in your jaw?
That's exactly what happened to Hamid. He spent nearly a decade working with functional medicine practitioners, running every lab test imaginable, and doing protocol after protocol, only to keep cycling back to the same symptoms. Fatigue. Brain fog. Gut issues that would improve then return. Something was still hiding.
It wasn't until he found biological dentistry, and Dr. Katie's two-hour comprehensive evaluation, that the fin...
8. The Team Behind the Care: How a Wellness Dental Practice Really Works
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When you walk into a truly holistic dental practice, you feel it before anyone says a word. The energy is calm. The team knows your name. Everyone in the room seems to actually care. That's not an accident. It's a decision that gets made every single day.
In this episode, Dr. Katie To pulls back the curtain on the human side of her wellness practice and sits down with the woman who helps make it all run, Dawn Miller. Dawn has been with Dr. Katie since 2015, has worn nea...
7. Oral Health, Whole-Body Wellness, and the Power of a Purpose-Driven Dentist
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What does it actually take to show up as your best self, for your patients, your family, and your own health?
In this episode of Wellness Dentistry: Oral Health for Longevity, Dr. Katie To sits down with high performance coach Dr. Emily Letran for a conversation that goes way beyond the dental chair. They talk about what it really means to take care of yourself so you can take care of others, and why that connection matters more than most people realize.
Dr. Katie has always bel...
6. Wellness Dentistry, Mercury Toxicity & Whole-Body Healing with Dr. Teresa Scott
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What if the very profession you dedicated your life to was also quietly making you sick?
That's the question Dr. Teresa Scott had to face, and her answer changed everything, not just for her own health, but for the patients and dentists she now leads toward a better way.
In this deeply personal and eye-opening episode of the Wellness Dentistry: Oral Health for Longevity Podcast, Dr. Katie To sits down with her mentor, best friend, and longtime CE partner, Dr. Teresa Scott, a leading biological dentist bas...
5. What's Really Living in Your Mouth? Biological Hygiene, Gum Disease & Whole-Body Health
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Episode 5 | What's Really Living in Your Mouth? Biological Hygiene & Your Whole-Body Health
Wellness Dentistry: Oral Health for Longevity with Dr. Katie To
Here's something most people have never been told at a routine dental visit: the bacteria in your mouth don't stay in your mouth.
In this eye-opening episode, Dr. Katie To sits down with Frances Horning, a certified biological hygienist with over 37 years of experience, international speaker, and one of the most respected trainers in the world of holistic dental car...
4. Immunity, Cancer, and Your Gut: A Periodontist's Unlikely Road to Healing
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What if everything you thought you knew about dental plaque was wrong? In this episode of Wellness Dentistry: Oral Health for Longevity, Dr. Katie To sits down with Dr. Al Danenberg, a periodontist of 44 years and a living testament to the power of supporting your body from the inside out. After being diagnosed with incurable bone marrow cancer in 2018 and given just three to six months to live, Dr. Danenberg refused to give up. He rebuilt his immune system through ten unconventional protocols, and by May 2020, his PET scan showed no...
3. Is Your Child's Mouth Affecting Their Health? Airway Dentistry with Dr. Svetlana Usherenko
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What if the reason your child struggles in school, wakes up tired, or gets sick all the time has nothing to do with their grades or their immune system β and everything to do with how they breathe?
In this episode, Dr. Katie To sits down with Dr. Svetlana Usherenko, an airway-focused biological dentist and mother of three, whose own journey with her children's health led her deep into the world of airway dentistry. Her oldest son lost his hearing from allergy complications. Her daughter was on antibiotics at two w...
2. Is Your Dental Work Making You Sick? Holistic Dental Care & Whole-Body Wellness with Dr. Dawn Ewing
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Have you ever wondered if what's happening in your mouth could be connected to what's happening in your body? Not just your gums, not just a cavity, but something deeper. Something your doctor hasn't been able to explain, no matter how many tests they run.
That's exactly what Dr. Katie To is talking about in this episode.
Dr. Katie To, The Wellness Dentist, sits down with one of her favorite people, Dr. Dawn Ewing, a leading expert in biological dentistry, Executive Director of the...
1. From Mercury Poisoning to Wellness Dentist: Dr. Katie To's Health Story
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There's something nobody tells you about the dental chair.
It's not just about your teeth.
I'm Dr. Katie To, a biological and cosmetic dentist practicing in Katy, Texas. And yes, you heard that right. Dr. Katie, from Katy, Texas. People laugh when they hear it, and honestly, it still makes me smile too.
But this first episode isn't about my name. It's about my story. And it's one I share because I know some of you are living it right now, maybe wit...